Joss Moorkens
@jossmo.bsky.social
Translation Studies/Technology at Dublin City University & The ADAPT Centre. Perpetual dabbler.
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"A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Centre for Demographic Studies investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza"
Don't forget. Just don't.
Don't forget. Just don't.
Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy
Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account
www.mpg.de
December 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Centre for Demographic Studies investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza"
Don't forget. Just don't.
Don't forget. Just don't.
This new Shudder to Think single also reminds me of Shudder to Think. shuddertothink.bandcamp.com/album/shudde...
Shudder to Think, by Shudder To Think
2 track album
shuddertothink.bandcamp.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This new Shudder to Think single also reminds me of Shudder to Think. shuddertothink.bandcamp.com/album/shudde...
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Andrew Rothwell, Joss Moorkens, Tomas Svoboda: Training in translation tools and technologies: Findings of the EMT survey 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22735 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22735 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.22735
April 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Andrew Rothwell, Joss Moorkens, Tomas Svoboda: Training in translation tools and technologies: Findings of the EMT survey 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22735 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22735 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.22735
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Fresh out of the press📘
Penet, J., (Newcastle University), Moorkens, J. (Dublin City University), Yamada, M. (Rikkyo University). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI. Language Science Press
Open access, tap the link: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Penet, J., (Newcastle University), Moorkens, J. (Dublin City University), Yamada, M. (Rikkyo University). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI. Language Science Press
Open access, tap the link: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Fresh out of the press📘
Penet, J., (Newcastle University), Moorkens, J. (Dublin City University), Yamada, M. (Rikkyo University). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI. Language Science Press
Open access, tap the link: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Penet, J., (Newcastle University), Moorkens, J. (Dublin City University), Yamada, M. (Rikkyo University). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI. Language Science Press
Open access, tap the link: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
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The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
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New open access article! The machine translator’s visibility: A postphenomenological analysis of machine translation.
@jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use.
See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
@jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use.
See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New open access article! The machine translator’s visibility: A postphenomenological analysis of machine translation.
@jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use.
See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
@jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use.
See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Kacper saved a couple of good efforts too. Between the two penalty shouts and the studs-up follow through in the box, we should've drawn it.
September 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Kacper saved a couple of good efforts too. Between the two penalty shouts and the studs-up follow through in the box, we should've drawn it.
Good new Guardian piece on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing with input from members of @subtleuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
September 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Good new Guardian piece on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing with input from members of @subtleuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
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A lotta hype during last night’s game about the NFL coming to Ireland on Sunday. Well, I just got back from Dublin and not everyone is thrilled to see the 2025 NFL plant a flag in their country www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The NFL Is Trump’s America—and It’s Invading Ireland
The league is not coming to Dublin to plant a tree. It is coming to plant a flag.
www.thenation.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A lotta hype during last night’s game about the NFL coming to Ireland on Sunday. Well, I just got back from Dublin and not everyone is thrilled to see the 2025 NFL plant a flag in their country www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A free event on September 30 International Translation Day: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis, organised by Gökhan Fırat and Translation Village.
Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself.
Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself.
Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
September 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A free event on September 30 International Translation Day: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis, organised by Gökhan Fırat and Translation Village.
Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself.
Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself.
Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
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Recently published: Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Recently published: Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato
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Recently published: Self-Determined Participation (SDP): A theoretical framework for explaining unpaid human participation in translation (and beyond?)
Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts.
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst
Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts.
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst
September 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Recently published: Self-Determined Participation (SDP): A theoretical framework for explaining unpaid human participation in translation (and beyond?)
Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts.
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst
Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts.
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst
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Recently published open access article:
Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach
Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes.
Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach
Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes.
Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Recently published open access article:
Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach
Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes.
Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach
Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes.
Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
Brilliant. A rare good news story!
September 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Brilliant. A rare good news story!
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Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
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This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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📣 Our journal Terminology puts out a Call for Papers for a special issue on #Terminology and #AI, guest edited by Kara Warburton & Rachele Raus!
More info:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
🙌 Sharing is appreciated!
More info:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
🙌 Sharing is appreciated!
August 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📣 Our journal Terminology puts out a Call for Papers for a special issue on #Terminology and #AI, guest edited by Kara Warburton & Rachele Raus!
More info:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
🙌 Sharing is appreciated!
More info:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
🙌 Sharing is appreciated!
Sending best wishes to her, and to yourself and family, Rich. Here's to a speedy recovery.
July 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Sending best wishes to her, and to yourself and family, Rich. Here's to a speedy recovery.
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"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
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“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars
Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...